51 research outputs found
What You Can Scrape and What Is Right to Scrape: A Proposal for a Tool to Collect Public Facebook Data
In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has restricted the access to its Application Programming Interface (API). This new policy has damaged the possibility for independent researchers to study relevant topics in political and social behavior. Yet, much of the public information that the researchers may be interested in is still available on Facebook, and can be still systematically collected through web scraping techniques. The goal of this article is twofold. First, we discuss some ethical and legal issues that researchers should consider as they plan their collection and possible publication of Facebook data. In particular, we discuss what kind of information can be ethically gathered about the users (public information), how published data should look like to comply with privacy regulations (like the GDPR), and what consequences violating Facebook's terms of service may entail for the researcher. Second, we present a scraping routine for public Facebook posts, and discuss some technical adjustments that can be performed for the data to be ethically and legally acceptable. The code employs screen scraping to collect the list of reactions to a Facebook public post, and performs a one-way cryptographic hash function on the users' identifiers to pseudonymize their personal information, while still keeping them traceable within the data. This article contributes to the debate around freedom of internet research and the ethical concerns that might arise by scraping data from the social web
On the affinities (and differences) between populism and a belief in conspiracy theories
Populist rhetorics and conspiracy theories share common traits: both portray a manipulative and secretive elite that govern in their own self-interest. Bruno Castanho Silva, Federico Vegetti and Levente Littvay find that belief in particular forms of conspiracy, though not all, go hand in hand with populist attitudes, which has implications for political trust
Migrant penalty in the European labor markets: the interplay between individual characteristics and the regional context
This study aims to verify if and how migrant penalty in the labor market is associated with sub-national characteristics, exploring the relevance of the regional occupational structure. We expect that a greater relevance of the share of low-status jobs at the regional level reduces the migrant penalty in terms of the probability of being employed, but increases the gap with natives in terms of job quality. We investigate this trade-off by estimating a set of hierarchical models on the EU-LFS data (2009–2015) for 19 countries and 189 regions. Results suggest a pattern consistent with the trade-off hypothesis, nuanced by heterogeneity at the individual level: in regions where the share of low-status jobs is higher, mid-high educated immigrants from less developed countries are less (or not) penalized compared to natives in terms of employment, while they face a stronger penalty in terms of job quality. What is more, the trade-off is not observed when considering low-educated migrants or those from high-income countries
The interplay of Self-Interacting Dark Matter and baryons in shaping the halo evolution
We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation to test the difference of
halo properties in cold dark matter (CDM) and a self-interacting dark matter
(SIDM) scenario with a constant cross-section of
. We find that the
interplay between dark matter self-interaction and baryonic physics induces a
complex evolution of the halo properties, which depends on the halo mass and
morphological type, as well as on the halo mass accretion history. While high
mass haloes, selected as analogues of early-type galaxies, show cored profiles
in the SIDM run, systems of intermediate mass and with a significant disk
component can develop a profile that is similar or cuspier than in CDM. The
final properties of SIDM haloes - measured at z=0.2 - correlate with the halo
concentration and formation time, suggesting that the differences between
different systems are due to the fact that we are observing the impact
self-interaction. We also search for signatures of self-interacting dark matter
in the lensing signal of the main haloes and hints of potential differences in
the distribution of Einstein radii, which suggests that future wide-field
survey might be able to distinguish between CDM and SIDM models on this basis.
Finally, we find that the subhalo abundances are not altered in the adopted
SIDM model with respect to CDM.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
TracEDaaS: Captura y Trazabilidad de Artefactos del Proceso de Diseño
Se presenta una herramienta, TracEDaaS, que permite la captura y la trazabilidad de la evolución de los productos del proceso de diseño de software, soportando el refinamiento y la elaboración iterativa del mismo. TracEDaaS ha sido implementada como un servicio en la nube bajo el modelo “Software as a Service” (SaaS) y permite representar junto a las versiones de los objetos del diseño, información que permite la trazabilidad de los artefactos del proceso de desarrollo, manteniendo la navegabilidad entre los distintos modelos y las diferentes versiones de los mismos. Esta información está estructurada en término de las operaciones aplicadas a los objetos de diseño. La herramienta es lo suficientemente flexible para soportar nuevos problemas de diseño en término de los conceptos particulares del dominio y las posibles operaciones que pueden ser aplicadas a las instancias de tales conceptos.Fil: Hernandez, Federico. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Santa Fe; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Roldán, María Luciana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Vegetti, Maria Marcela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Gonnet, Silvio Miguel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Leone, Horacio Pascual. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; Argentin
Findings from the Hackathon on Understanding Euroscepticism Through the Lens of Textual Data
We present an overview and the results of a shared-task hackathon that took place as part of a research seminar bringing together a variety of experts and young researchers from the fields of political science, natural language processing and computational social science. The task looked at ways to develop novel methods for political text scaling to better quantify political party positions on European integration and Euroscepticism from the transcript of speeches of three legislations of the European Parliament
Correction to: Perceived economic self-sufficiency: a country- and generation-comparative approach
After online first publication of the article, it was noticed that the family name of author Panos Tsakloglou was erroneously misspelt as Tsakoglou
Perceived economic self‑sufficiency: a countryand generation‑comparative approach
We thank Michael Camasso and Radha Jagannathan as well as Asimina Christoforou,
Gerbert Kraaykamp, Fay Makantasi, Tiziana Nazio, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Jacqueline O’Reilly
and Jan van Deth for their contribution to the CUPESSE project (Seventh Framework Programme; Grant
Agreement No. 61325). CUPESSE received additional funding from the Mannheim Centre for European
Social Research (MZES) and the Field of Focus 4 “Self-Regulation and Regulation: Individuals and
Organisations” at Heidelberg University. We further acknowledge helpful comments on this article by
two anonymous reviewers. Julian Rossello provided valuable research assistance.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https ://doi.org/10.1057/
s4130 4-018-0186-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking these official statistics as a starting point, the collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship in Europe” (CUPESSE) generated new survey data on the economic and social situation of young Europeans (18–35 years). The CUPESSE dataset allows for country-comparative assessments of young people’s perceptions about their socio-economic situation. Furthermore, the dataset includes a variety of indicators examining the socio-economic situation of both young adults and their parents. In this data article, we introduce the CUPESSE dataset to political and social scientists in an attempt to spark a debate on the measurements, patterns and mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of economic self-sufficiency as well as its political implications.CUPESSE project (Seventh Framework Programme; Grant Agreement No. 61325
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